Lithiack Dairy is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. House.
Lithiack Dairy
- WRENN ID
- fossil-frieze-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lithiack Dairy is an ornamental dairy that has been converted into a house. It was built in the early 19th century, possibly incorporating an earlier structure, and underwent interior alterations in the mid-19th century, with a 20th-century addition to the rear right. The building is constructed of slatestone rubble and features a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends.
The layout consists of a two-room plan with a basement beneath the ground floor. There is a covered way on the left side that leads to the dairy located in an outshut at the rear of the main range. The basement room was also used as a dairy. The 20th-century addition forms a wing at the rear right, built at the same ground level as the main range's ground floor. The overall design is asymmetrical and reflects Gothic style.
The exterior is one storey high, with a basement on the left side where the ground slopes down. The front is asymmetrical with five bays. On the right, there is a four-centred arched chamfered doorway featuring a Gothic door and a low brattished parapet above. To the left of the doorway, there is a slightly advanced gabled bay with a weathered plinth and a stone window with five narrow four-centred arched lights. A similar three-light window is found in a gabled half-dormer to the left of the centre, and a single light is located in a projecting gabled bay to the left, rising from a broad weathered buttress. At the extreme left, there is a three-light casement window in the basement. The left side includes a covered way at basement level supported by wooden piers and topped with a hipped roof. The gable end of the main range features a four-centred arched three-light window made of limestone. At the rear, there is an early 20th-century single-storey wing. The rear of the main range has a catslide roof over a single-storey outshut that contains the dairy room, which has three six-light triangular-headed windows that were rebuilt in the later 20th century after storm damage.
Inside, the dairy room is tiled and includes a fountain in a recess at the right end, along with a marble table. The front room at basement level is also tiled and features a trough along the rear wall. The tiles depict pictures of cows and milking scenes from the mid-19th century.
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